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What is InfoSphere Guardium?

What is InfoSphere Guardium?

IBM InfoSphere Guardium. IBM® InfoSphere® Guardium® products provide a simple, robust solution for preventing data leaks from databases and files, helping to ensure the integrity of information in the data center, and automating compliance controls.

How do I check my guardium version?

Answer. To identify the release level for your Guardium installation run the show build command as user cli . Guardium v7 will display the build level. Guardium v8 will display build level, release level and snif version.

What is Guardium collector?

Guardium systems: Collectors: The collector performs real-time capture and analysis of the database activity, and logs it for further analysis and use in alerting. Aggregators: Guardium aggregators collect and merge information from multiple Guardium collectors, and optionally from other aggregators.

How do you add a user to Guardium?

Click Add User to add a user-DB association, click any users that you want to add, and then click Add. Click Add Group to add a group-DB association. When Add Group is selected, groups that are created by using the Group Builder for group type Guardium Users display. Select the group you’d like to add and click Add.

When creating a user what role is assigned by default in Guardium?

Default Roles. The Guardium system is pre-configured to support users who fall into four broadly defined default roles: admin, user, access manager, and investigations. The Guardium access manager can create new roles as well.

What is the purpose of Guardium’s application events API?

The Application Events API is used to increase the speed at which Guardium processes statements.

What database does QRadar use?

Postgres is used for configurations and functionality related to QRadar. Ariel is a custom minute-by-minute event database created by the QRadar dev team to capture and write events to disk in /store/ariel.

What is Guardium a tap?

The A-TAP mechanism monitors communication between internal components of the database server. The data is unencrypted in the application layer, where A-TAP picks it up and sends to K-TAP. K-TAP is a proxy to pass data to S-TAP, and from there it is then sent to the Guardium collector.

What is InfoSphere® Guardium®?

IBM® Guardium®® is a database activity and audit tracking tool for system administrators to retrieve detailed auditing events across database platforms. These instructions require that you install the 8.2p45 fix for InfoSphere® Guardium.

What is IBM Security Guardium data protection?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

How does IBM QRadar® collect information from IBM Guardium?

IBM QRadar® collects informational, error, alert, and warnings from IBM Guardium by using syslog. IBM QRadar receives IBM Guardium Policy Builder events in the Log Event Extended Format (LEEF). QRadar can only automatically discover and map events of the default policies that ship with IBM Guardium.

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